Steve Swales wrote on 2001-12-14 19:56 UTC: > >> >I suggest that instead of using server-side fonts, Xft > >> >should rasterize glyphs with FreeType and draw with the Render extension > >> >where available and using the core protocol for legacy servers without > >> >Render support. > > But every glyph would have to be sent over the wire as a pixmap, every time it's > drawn. Performance would be so bad, particularly over the wire, that it would > be as good as broken... or am I missing something?
It is just what xdvi, acroread, ghostview, and many other text display tools with client-side font engines have done all the time. What's the schedule for getting RENDER into the X11 standard and Sun's X servers? Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
